Jason Fried
26 statements across 3 episodes · 10 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 14, 2020 by David Heinemeier Hansson · said 11 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2020 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Basecamp Founder David Heinemeier Hansson on Why It Is The Biggest BS To Chase Being A Unicorn, His Relationship to Wealth and Status and Why Now More Than Ever It Is A Myth Entrepreneurs Have To Raise VC
- 20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
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Everything said about Jason Fried, oldest first
Apr 14, 2020 bearish
DHH: Basecamp Intentionally Avoids Expanding to Hundreds of Employees
“I don't think we could do the things that we could do if we were 300 people or a thousand people, which is actually one of the main reasons we try not to get to that, Right? Like, I don't want to work at a place that has 300 people or a thousand people that I …”
Mar 22, 2021 positive
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Mar 22, 2021 positive
Fried holds index funds and Apple stock at a $2 cost basis
“My personal trading portfolio is like boring index funds, like S and P 500 in NASDAQ, the Dow, that kind of stuff. I've owned Apple for many years, split-adjusted down to, like, two dollars, so I've done quite well on Apple over the years.”
Mar 22, 2021
Fried keeps all his financial risk tied up in Basecamp
“So, I'm very, very conservative when it comes to investing. All my risk is tied up in my own business, and my own business is a machine that makes me the money. When I invest in something, it's because I want to support the thing, and if there's a return in th…”
Mar 22, 2021 positive
Warren Buffett keeps an open schedule and books meetings one day ahead
“If you ever want to meet with Warren Buffett, what his secretary will tell you, call the day before and ask. So Warren Buffett's schedule is open. I mean, certainly there's a few things on his schedule that he has to plan, but for the most part, it's totally o…”
Mar 22, 2021 neutral
Mar 22, 2021 positive
Jan 6, 2023 positive
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Jason Fried ignores resumes, work history, and college education when hiring
“I don't really care about resumes. I don't really care about a lot of that people's history. I don't care where they went to school. If they went to school, I don't care about any of those things. Let's look at the work itself.”
Jan 6, 2023 neutral
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Managers should evaluate first-year employees by asking if they would rehire them
“One of the things we do is the first year is kind of a real big, I would say, I mean, people are hired, but it's kind of a test. The main question we ask at the end of the first year is would I hire this person again?”
Jan 6, 2023
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Jan 6, 2023 positive
Basecamp grew to its largest headcount ever following the 2021 staff walkout
“We, we've actually grown significantly bigger than we've ever been. So we rehired a bunch of people and then have hired more since. At the time that happened, we were about 60, now we're about 80, biggest we've ever been.”